Welcome to our DASSC Writing Inquiry Wiki! This wiki first began as a means for collaboration among participants in the DASSC Writing Inquiry and to make public our thinking throughout the project.
Year 1:
The first year of our work (2010-2011) was about learning what needs to happen in order to ensure students will be successful writers in college and in life. The questions driving our inquiry were:
What do high school writing teachers and college professors who teach writing need to know about expectations, curriculum, and instruction?
What writing dispositions, skills, and knowledge are needed for incoming college students to be successful?
What does it mean to prepare students as writers for college?
On the right side of the page, you'll see that pages connected to our wiki. Please feel free to add information or begin conversations on any of these pages.
Summary of our 2010-2011 inquiry Here is a summary of our year's inquiry
If you would like to see annotated writing that illustrates proficiency mid-year for high school seniors, please go to "Student Writing Exemplars."
Year 2:
The second year (2011-12) we broadened our inquiry to learn about 21st century skills/dispositions and post-secondary workforce readiness. Our questions are:
What does writing look like in the 21st century world of work as seen through a disciplinary lens?
What are the implications for writing instruction based on the Common Core State Standards with its emphasis on the 21st century skills?
What does it mean for students as writers to be “post-secondary workforce ready”?
What is the current state of writing instruction and, given the above questions, what are the implications for educators?
On our third year, we continued the previous year's conversation with this two questions guiding our inquiry: •What would it take to create the innovators that we need for the 21st Century? What are the implications for today’s writing instruction?
A new report about the literacy needs for college from NCEE (Marc Tucker's group). It tries to answer the question about what do students really need to know to be college and career ready
Twitter: #writinginquiry College readiness NCTE wrote a booklet that addressed this issue: Framework for Success Also check out the summary of our year's inquiry: Lessons Learned Marc Tucker's organization, NCEE, offers some insights into college readiness: English Report Disciplinary Writing Isn’t good writing good writing? What’s different when we write through a disciplinary lens? Study the Padlet on Disciplinary Writing
Welcome to our DASSC Writing Inquiry Wiki!This wiki first began as a means for collaboration among participants in the DASSC Writing Inquiry and to make public our thinking throughout the project.
Year 1:
The first year of our work (2010-2011) was about learning what needs to happen in order to ensure students will be successful writers in college and in life. The questions driving our inquiry were:What writing dispositions, skills, and knowledge are needed for incoming college students to be successful?
What does it mean to prepare students as writers for college?
On the right side of the page, you'll see that pages connected to our wiki. Please feel free to add information or begin conversations on any of these pages.
Summary of our 2010-2011 inquiry
Here is a summary of our year's inquiry
Before you read "Lessons Learned," consider doing this first:
If you would like to see annotated writing that illustrates proficiency mid-year for high school seniors, please go to "Student Writing Exemplars."
Year 2:
The second year (2011-12) we broadened our inquiry to learn about 21st century skills/dispositions and post-secondary workforce readiness. Our questions are:Plan for 2011-2012 inquiry
Summary of the year:
Year 3:
On our third year, we continued the previous year's conversation with this two questions guiding our inquiry:•What would it take to create the innovators that we need for the 21st Century? What are the implications for today’s writing instruction?
Our closing video Pete the Cat
A new report about the literacy needs for college from NCEE (Marc Tucker's group). It tries to answer the question about what do students really need to know to be college and career ready
To review Tony Wagner’s work on creating innovators, check out the following link
a. http://creatinginnovators.com
b. http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/creating-innovators-22-insights-from-tony-wagners-new-book-905.php
c. Skim Wagner’s chapter 5 on innovating learning: http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Innovators-Making-People-Change/dp/1451611498
d. http://www.educationfutures.com/2012/05/18/review-creating-innovators-by-tony-wagner/
e. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholastic-achievement-partners/pdfs/Tony-Wagner-Scholastic-Achievement-Partners_AASA_4-12.pdf
f. Yes but:http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2012/04/tony-wagners-creating-innovators-doesnt.html
Year 4
For December 6, 2013
Twitter: #writinginquiry
College readiness
NCTE wrote a booklet that addressed this issue: Framework for Success
Also check out the summary of our year's inquiry: Lessons Learned
Marc Tucker's organization, NCEE, offers some insights into college readiness: English Report
Disciplinary Writing
Isn’t good writing good writing? What’s different when we write through a disciplinary lens? Study the
Padlet on Disciplinary Writing
Other sources for more information:
a. http://twp.duke.edu/writing-studio/resources/writing-for-specific-disciplines
b. http://uncw.edu/ulc/writing/WritingintheDisciplinesHandouts.htm
c. http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/POP-CULTURE/ways%20of%20knowing.pdf
Writing in the workplace
Check out presentations from a few years ago: 2nd year presentations
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/4/16/
http://www.careerbuilder.com/Article/CB-1245-The-Workplace-The-Importance-of-Good-Writing/
To watch a classroom that is working at becoming innovative through inquiry, check this out: Jenny Henry's 5th grade class
Notes from today's meeting: